Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2024

Strategic: this risk could prevent an organization from accomplishing its objectives or meeting its goals. A Primer for Pre- and Post-Award Grant Readiness. Becky Jascoviak of RBW Strategy helped with this article The post I Signed up for What?! Check out the webinar I Signed Up for What?

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 24, 2024

Read our article here about our 2023 successes. As we have worked with nonprofits, some of those nonprofits love to delve into data and constantly adjust goals and metrics, and other nonprofits need more guidance about how to structure their goals to be data-driven. Provide budget-to-actuals comparison through the last month.

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Fundly

JUNE 20, 2024

Your nonprofit’s donors lead busy lives—managing their careers, maintaining social relationships, and pursuing their personal goals. Giving Tuesday: FAQs Ready to become a Giving Tuesday expert? Set a goal and budget. Decide on a goal that’s specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART).

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 26, 2022

, but before it officially wraps, let’s take a look at the top articles of the year. These fundraising articles are popular ones that our readers have loved and I wanted to gather them together for you in case you missed any of them earlier this year. Which one of our fundraising articles was your favorite?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2015

The year-end giving season offers a unique opportunity for engaging with your supporters and fans, whether your ultimate goal is deepening relationships or fundraising. By planning ahead, thinking multichannel, and preparing your communications, you'll be ready for the year-end online giving season. Plan Ahead for Messaging.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The year-end giving season offers a unique opportunity for engaging with your supporters and fans, whether your ultimate goal is deepening relationships or fundraising. By planning ahead, thinking multichannel, and preparing your communications, you'll be ready for the year-end online giving season. Plan Your Year-End Messaging.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JUNE 5, 2024

After attending trainings in AI, reading articles and online courses about AI, and testing several platforms, we have identified some tasks where it may be appropriate and even beneficial to let a bot handle the task. Read this article to see: What can AI do that a human can’t? You can check out my article on this topic here.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since you probably raise a good percentage of your fundraising goal during the month of December, you have to make the time count! Instead, give yourself a solid 4-6 week time frame (pre-December) to hammer down your year-end fundraising details so you’re ready to go on kickoff day.

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Red Tape Busters

JANUARY 26, 2024

Are you ready to take your organisation’s funding potential to the next level? But before you dive into the world of grant applications, it’s essential to ensure that you’re grant ready. Understanding Grant Readiness Grant readiness is all about positioning your organisation to maximise your funding potential.

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Candid

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The board controls the organization, not the founder, and they are subject to laws and regulations, including their own articles of incorporation and bylaws. Ultimately, the goal is to further your mission and make a difference, whether that’s by starting a nonprofit organization or through these alternatives.

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Grant Consulting Services

MARCH 26, 2023

Grant optimization and readiness helps you determine if your organization is eligible and helps prepare your organization to start applying for grant funding. In order to make sure our clients are as ready as possible to apply to potential grantmakers based on their requirements we have to first assess. What is Grant Optimization?

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Use the SMART Goal setting strategy to craft your fundraising goal. SMART goals help you streamline a reasonable goal for any situation. Don’t hesitate to use this budget as a guide for your year-end fundraising efforts. Have a Plan: What types of fundraising activities are you planning to use?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Here are 8 fundraising tools that should be sharpened and ready to go in your fundraising toolkit. You need a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) to attract tons of attention and support for your cause. You must have stories ready to share about people whose lives have been significantly impacted by the work your nonprofit does.

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Candid

JULY 12, 2022

When approaching prospective fiscal sponsors, be ready to give a project proposal that explains: . Your project: why it’s needed and its goals, objectives, method, evaluation, staffing, and budget. . To learn more, visit Candid’s knowledge base for the full article on fiscal sponsorship. . Have a question?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Picture this: as donations roll in, a progress bar fills up automatically, showing exactly how close you are to hitting your matching goal. It’s an incredible way to rally support and reach your fundraising goals faster! Get Started Today Ready to take your fundraising to the next level?

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Blackbaud

MAY 6, 2024

A clear understanding of your core mission and short-term and long-term goals aligns the budget and financial decisions with the overall direction of the organization. Having your organization’s mission and short- and long-term goals as a guide will also allow for flexibility in the budget.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

In this article, I’ll explore how nonprofits can utilize Instructional Design principles to develop training that engages, empowers, and educates both colleagues and external stakeholders. Based on your audience, you can set SMART objectives ; then you’re ready to start designing your learning materials.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When planning to post about these topics, make sure you are building scheduled posts into your social media editorial calendar to “tease” the event in the days or weeks leading up to it and getting your donors ready to give! Any of these goals can be accomplished with original or shared content, videos, memes, and photos. JUST for fun!

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

That planning must include a specific goal focused on a solvable problem. In order to reach your fundraising goal for Giving Tuesday, you must break through the noise, like a clear bell ringing above the din. A specific goal: The best Giving Tuesday campaigns focus on solvable problems. They shouldn’t even bother.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Spur Local’s Donation Counter Spur Local used a donation counter to add a sense of urgency and community as everyone rallied together to hit the goal. As you can see in the Feed Montana example above, they exceeded their goal of $85,000, filling up the green progress meter to 100%!

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Now, as we get started fundraising in 2021, it’s never been more important to have a fundraising plan that designed to help you make up for lost funds and meet your goals in today’s context. They’re organized, actionable and tell a complete story of how you’re going to achieve your goals. Understand Your Need & Goals.

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GrantNews

JULY 10, 2024

Ready to be inspired and get some valuable grant writing tips? Get ready to follow Libby’s incredible rise from a special education teacher to the top of the grant world! The website also boasts GrantNews , and fresh, engaging articles publish every day. Then tune into BYB! Learn from Mistakes Everyone makes mistakes.

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

OCTOBER 3, 2021

This strategy involves going to large conferences and events in your organization’s mission field with the goal of meeting new donors at the event. You could also simply say, “Our latest newsletter had a great article about keeping your kids safe online… can I send you a copy?”.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

The bottom line: you need a fundraising plan built on the right fundraising plan template — one that outlines goals, actions, and the specific results you want. That means you need a fundraising plan template that meets YOUR needs, plays to YOUR strengths, and helps you reach YOUR goals. Are you ready??

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Selfish Giving

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The gang at Remarkable Partnerships (RP) in the UK has shared a helpful article for new corporate fundraisers. Deferrers" look to others to help make decisions so be ready to share social proof. It's called 5 Top Tips for New Corporate Fundraisers. I agree with every point! Those Brits are so wicked smahht!?????? Be a sponge.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising season is upon us and it’s time to set some big year-end fundraising goals and go after them! Then choose the strategies that will help you reach your goals before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve. As you write blog posts, social media posts, appeals, and newsletter articles, keep your message focused on your mission.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Read our article to learn more. What is the best option to help your organization meet its fundraising goals without overspending on grant writing services? This article will explore some alternatives to hiring a full-time grant writer. They join you where you are and help you reach your funding goals.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are some universal elements to any compelling story, whether they’re in books, the news, articles, blogs, or movies. Amit and Priya both leave for work very early in the morning, so Fatima is on her own to get ready for school. A donation from you will help us meet this goal and continue to help families in crisis.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And that means you can start using those funds almost as soon as they’re donated to help your organization reach its goals. In this article, we’ll discuss how you can incorporate text-to-give into your fundraising strategy to boost impact. From there, you’ll be ready to take off with text-to-give!

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Get Ready Now For Year End Fundraising So, what does it take to make this your best year end fundraising season ever? What’s your goal for year end fundraising this year? It’s a big mistake to go into fundraising season without a goal. You need a specific goal to raise money for something with a specific outcome.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Their websites were built and their platforms were ready And fundraisers knew they must breathe slow and steady, But still in their minds there lingered some fright: “How do I know if I’m doing this right?” Are you ready? Make sure they know how to use the resources in their fundraising toolkit , and are ready to go.

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AmpliFund

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This article offers suggestions for grant programs on how to shift their grants management strategy to one that is effective for reporting on ARPA funding. This article helps programs create those goals and a concrete strategy for achieving them. This article offers advice on how to centralize, even when you’re understaffed.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 4, 2024

In this article, we share the top insights from Dan Keyworth’s white paper, Higher Education Advancement Technology, to help you make the most of your advancement technology solutions. The goal is to make it easier to act upon the vast amounts of data these institutions have. Yet it is not just about cost – time matters too.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

For a more detailed explanation of grants, refer to our article on what is a grant. To effectively research grant opportunities, individuals should consider the following steps: Identify potential funding sources that align with their organizations mission or project goals. Objectives Outlines the goals the grant aims to achieve.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

They can help the organization set and achieve goals. They’re responsible for planning, organizing, and directing a group so that goals are reached in a timely fashion. In order to reach your goals, you need a well-thought-out plan. You must think about both long-term and short-term goals and how you’ll reach them.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

You’ve outgrown your space, and you’re ready for your first capital campaign! Smaller gifts from individuals, events, and items like engraved bricks help support the campaign toward the end, when a small amount is left to reach the goal. First Things First…Are You Really Ready for Your First Capital Campaign?

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In this article, we’ll navigate the terrain of donor discovery together, accompanied by insights from a luminary in the field – Chris Barlow. Do Market Research The goal for your lead magnet is to create a resource that people may find when they are using a search engine. The goal is to build trust.

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